education

Article from the Newark Evening News detailing the history of segregated schools in the city. The Commerce Street Colored School, the last of Newark’s segregated schools, was disbanded in 1909. — Credit: Newark Public Library

Article from the Newark Evening News covering the educational career of James Baxter, principal of the first “Colored School” in Newark for 45 years. Baxter was also the first African American principal in Newark’s public school system. — Credit: Newark Public Library

Annual Report of the Newark Redevelopment and Housing Authority from 1974. The Authority was responsible for managing Newark’s public housing projects and urban renewal projects. — Credit: Rutgers University Libraries

Press release issued by the North Ward Clergy Group on January 1, 1973, providing the results of their fact-finding about the Kawaida Towers housing project. Kawaida Towers, a high-rise housing project that Baraka planned to build in Newark’s predominantly white North Ward, was met by fierce opposition from white residents and politicians. — Credit: Seton Hall University Libraries

Transcript of court proceedings during the trial of Stella Wright Rent Strike leaders Toby Henry and Rev. Thomas Comerford. The two tenant leaders were found guilty of contempt of court for re-distributing withheld rent back to tenants, rather than turning it over to the Newark Housing Authority which had failed to make repairs to the buildings. Henry and Comerford were sentenced to 45 days. — Credit: Seton Hall University Libraries

Flyer distributed by the United Afro American Association (UAAA) in 1967, announcing a rally to protest racial violence that broke out in Barringer High School in November 1967. Led by Willie Wright, the UAAA was a relatively small organization, but garnered much attention for Wright’s militant rhetoric following the 1967 Newark Rebellion. — Credit: New Jersey State Archives

Pamphlet distributed by the Committee For Unified Newark (CFUN) in 1972, outlining the major programs, projects, teachings, and ideologies of the organization. CFUN was a cultural nationalist organization established in 1968 by Amiri Baraka aimed at achieving Black political power in Newark. — Credit: The Black Power Movement, Pt. 1 (microfilm)

Newsletter from Amiri Baraka and Committee For Unified Newark (CFUN) on the customs and concepts of “Kawaida,” a cultural nationalist ideology and movement. CFUN was a cultural nationalist organization established in 1968 by Amiri Baraka aimed at achieving Black political power in Newark. — Credit: The Black Power Movement, Pt. 1 (microfilm)

Newsletter from Amiri Baraka and the Committee For Unified Newark (CFUN), covering the recent ouster of the principal and vice principal of the Robert Treat School. CFUN was largely responsible for their removal, and the appointment of black principal Eugene Campbell, who later became the first black superintendent of Newark Public Schools. — Credit: Amiri Baraka Papers, Columbia University Libraries